Pat Rock on Jul 31st, 2008Do Not Ever Ever Ever talk to the Police!
No, really, even if you are completely 100% innocent, do not talk to the police about anything. Ever.
It’s called the 5th Amendment, use it, live it, love it.
Here is are two videos, one from a lawyer, one from a cop, both explaining why you should never talk to the police: Don’t Talk to the [...]
Pat Rock on Jul 30th, 2008If Tom Brady Had a Comic Book
What if Tom Brady had a comic book…..
Tom Brady’s Adventures in Comics (Warning, potty humor, potentially not safe for work.).
Pat Rock on Jul 29th, 2008Announcement: New Blogging Software
After 3+ years of running on my own home rolled blogging software today I cut over to WordPress. I thought I might feel a little more emotional about it, but the fact is that I am so damn happy to be up and running on a modern blogging platform that I’ve already forgotten about [...]
Pat Rock on Jul 29th, 2008Test
Obligatory Hello World
Pat Rock on Jul 28th, 2008Monday Jam: Tegan and Sara - Back in Your Head (Remix)
Cute lesbian twins playing electronica with irresistable pop hooks, what’s not to love?
Back In Your Head
Pat Rock on Jul 22nd, 2008Watchmen Trailer Released
Watchmen Trailer
I’m cautiously hopeful. Actually I’m giddy beyond belief that they might be able to pull this off.
(If you don’t already know Alan Moore’s Watchmen is basically the most famous graphic novel like evah. Its a well written and complex book that operates on several levels at once. Many of them impossible [...]
Pat Rock on Jul 22nd, 2008A Change Up From Serious Articles on Economy Woes
A satirical article from the Onion on Economy Woes:
Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In:
“What America needs right now is not more talk and long-term strategy, but a concrete way to create more imaginary wealth in the very immediate future,” said Thomas Jenkins, CFO of the Boston-area Jenkins Financial Group, a bubble-based investment firm. [...]
Pat Rock on Jul 18th, 2008You Know You Are A Fading Superpower When…
Even the Aussies start Writing Editorials About it
Nirvana Out of American Reach
THE energy, financial and political woes that grip the US signal a decisive shift in world power, mocking the liberal delusion that Barack Obama or John McCain can return American prestige and power to its pre-Bush year 2000 nirvana. There is no such nirvana. [...]
Pat Rock on Jul 17th, 2008Two More From Harpers: Our Phony Economies
Our Phony Economy:
With families the logic is the same. By the standard of the GDP, the worst families in America are those that actually function as families - that cook their own meals, take walks after dinner, and talk together instead of just farming the kids out to the commercial culture. Cooking at home, talking [...]
Pat Rock on Jul 16th, 2008Hell Hath No Limits: Wendell Berry and our Faustian Economics
Oh Wendell Berry, will you marry me?
From Harper’s Magazine, Wendell Berry’s Faustian Economics
The general reaction to the apparent end of the era of cheap fossil fuel, as to other readily foreseeable curtailments, has been to delay any sort of reckoning. The strategies of delay, so far, have been a sort of willed oblivion, or visions [...]